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Photo by Myles RobinsonScott Morlan has no problem getting students to enroll in his class. He teaches Surfing 101 at Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach.
"They have a blast," he said of his 30 or so beginning-surfing students. "While 2,00...

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This city is called Newport Beach. BEACH! Doesn't that sound like the name of a place where surfers would live, where all the citizens in this city would love and be conscious of the ocean?
Personally, I was raised by two generations of beachgoers...

on June 1, 2000

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on June 1, 2000

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Photo by Keith May"Is this where we're supposed to be?" The protester looked confused. Twenty minutes late, she had just arrived at Diedrich Coffee on 17th Street in Costa Mesa and wasn't sure where she was supposed to be. Her confusion was justifia...

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Photo by Jack Gould"The Mission of the FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION is to promote the integrity of representative state and local government in California through fair, impartial interpretation and enforcement of political campaign, lobbying,...

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Illustration by Bob AulI hear so many excuses every day that it's like breathing air. The most common is "I was just getting change." Or "I was going to pay it," or "The meter's broke." I guess the funniest are when they leave a note on their cars s...

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Photo by Jack GouldWe get a lot of letters here at Commie Girl headquarters. Many of them tell us how wonderful we are. Many of them do not. But we were happy to get this one last week because above all, we want to be here for you, our beloved reade...

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Illustration by Bob AulLA Convention Center
Thursday, May 11
9:30 a.m. Waiting patiently with a herd to get onto the expo floor. Rumor has it 50,000 journalists and computer pros are expected at the expo this year, to gaze in awe and occasional c...

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Photo by Jeanne RiceRay Cordova is Central Casting for a backroom pol. He's old and kind of crinkly, and he's got a mouth as foul as Lyndon Johnson's. We're pretty sure he dyes his hair, and he calls legs "pins," at least when they're on a woman. Th...

on May 25, 2000

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May 2. Last week, we saw a Costa Mesa couple attempt to "recover" a set of $3,500 gold wheels they said were missing from their impounded 1988 Chrysler LeBaron. This week, the stakes have risen. Our story begins this way: a resident left his 1990 Me...

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Illustration by Bob AulIf Pat Buchanan wins the Reform Party's nomination, billionaire cartoon character H. Ross Perot will apparently ditch the party convention Aug. 10-13 in Long Beach, according to a May 10 CNN report. And that makes us very sad....

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The county's El Toro office is once again up and running. The army of planners, lobbyists, consultants and attorneys is back, uneasily pretending that a judge's recent ruling that Measure F's spending caps are "vague" means the plan to build a massi...

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Photo by Heather SwaimFred Sharp thought it was funny the time his son brought home 20 rounds of machine-gun ammo he had found in his Chino Hills neighborhood. But Sharp, a Vietnam vet and bomb expert, was less amused on March 14, 1999, when a neigh...

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Photo by Joy BastIt's no surprise that John Rossmann hates the Orange Unified school board. As head of the district's teachers union, Rossmann has watched a school board that is the pedagogical equivalent of a hand grenade with the pin removed. Arch...

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Directorless, vetless, feckless, the Orange County Animal Shelter has problems: paperwork screw-ups lead to dead animals, animal cages are exposed to the elements, adoptions are complicated by Byzantine policies and hours, volunteers leave after rep...

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on May 25, 2000

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Proposition 187 may have stalled in the courts, but it seems to have scored at least one victory: persuading immigrants--legal and otherwise--not to apply for services such as Medi-Cal, which provides free access to health care for low-income reside...

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Doug Wilson is a good example of why the county El Toro Program office needs an independent auditor. He's the senior staff analyst who answers all the county supervisors' questions concerning their current El Toro study sessions. Sources close to th...